Ai Tools For Quality Course Design

AI Tools for Quality Course Design:
Improving the Student Learning Experience

Welcome TLT Learning Community!
Zala Fashant Karen LaPlant

Minnesota State, Retired Metropolitan State University
Chief Design Architect, Innovation Synergy Innovation Synergy
Minneapolis, MN/Athens, Greece Minneapolis, MN/New Smyrna Beach, FL
QUALITY
Focusing On…
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Today’s Goal
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Today’s presentation is to discuss the

pros and cons of what is currently
possible with AI tools.
In no way are we promoting the use of

any or all these AI tools for use in your
courses. As the curator, you make that
decision!

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Course Design
Feedback
Assessments
Assignments
Resources
Annotated Bibs
Self Assessment
Rubric Creation
Assessment
Pathway*
Advantages:
+ Engagement
+ Higher Thinking
Share with Your Colleagues
How are you currently

using AI tools to build
QUALITY
in your courses to promote
significant learning?

Artificial Intelligence 101
Many terms under the AI Umbrella!

• Artificial Intelligence (AI),
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• Generative AI,
• Machine Learning (ML),
• Large Language Models (LLM),
• Artificial Neural Network (ANN),
• Deep Learning (DL),
• Copilots,
• Responsible AI,
• Hallucination,
• Plugins,
• Token,
• Prompt Source

Artificial Intelligence 101
Ethical Considerations
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Source

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ChatGPT in Course Design

• Creating and Aligning Outcomes,
Assessments, and Activities
• Developing Rubrics & Directions
• Discovering Resources in Print,
Podcasts, Video, Media, OER
• Providing Teaching & Learning
Strategies

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History of Greece

Prompt for the
Application Outcomes
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You are an instructional designer and are going to create an
alignment of university course outcomes, assessments, and
learning activities for History of Greece course at the 400 level.
Start by creating 5 outcomes for the cognitive Application
domain of the Taxonomy of Significant Learning where
students will describe the kinds of activities and tasks learners
will be able to perform based on the information they have
acquired by choosing from the following verbs: Analyze,
Assess, Calculate, Compute, Critique, Defend, Demonstrate,
Design, Develop, Diagram, Distinguish, Illustrate, Infer, Justify,
Manage, Modify, Organize, Outline, Prepare, Solve, Transfer,
or Use.

ChatGPT Response for the
Application Outcomes
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Here are the 5 Application Outcomes for the History of Greece
course at the 400 level:
• Analyze the political structures and systems of ancient
Greece.
• Assess the impact of major historical events on the
development of ancient Greek society.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply historical and cultural
context to interpret primary sources from ancient Greece.
• Design and develop a research project exploring a specific
aspect of ancient Greek history.
• Justify and defend personal perspectives on the significance
and relevance of ancient Greek history in the modern world.

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Next…
• Created Outcomes for Each of My Design Domains
• Created Assessments with Rubrics
• Activities with Rubrics and Directions
• Assessments and Activities Aligned with Outcomes
• Online Discussion Prompts with Rubrics,
• Annotated Bibliography to fit the Outcomes
• 3 Teaching Strategies
• 3 Learning Strategies for Students

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Next…
• Created Outcomes for Each of My Design Domains
• Created Assessments with Rubrics
• Activities with Rubrics and Directions
• Assessments and Activities Aligned with Outcomes
• Online Discussion Prompts with Rubrics,
• Annotated Bibliography to fit the Outcomes
• 3 Teaching Strategies
• 3 Learning Strategies for Students
Total Time…. 10 minutes for all of this!

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• Edited ChatGPT responses to fit my
preferences and decided by prioritizing which
outcomes, assessments, activities, etc. were
the most appropriate for my course.
• Found a lot of it to be of decent quality
(beyond my expectations). Rubrics needed
the most work!
• Moved on to the next domain in the
Taxonomy of Significant Learning.

ChatGPT for Assessment
This AI tool can do a lot more for you in your ^Lifelong
teaching and for students’ learning.
Creating Examples
We have already discussed it’s use in developing

rubrics. Once you have edited the rubrics for
assignments, have ChatGPT use that rubric to
develop sample written responses. Let’s say you
wanted students to write a 5-page paper.

Tell ChatGPT the components you want in the ^Lifelong
paper such as an introduction, a body of ideas
that are supported by citations from journal
articles and experts, a conclusion, and a
bibliography of sources and footnotes if
applicable.
Tell it to use a writing style such as APA, MLA,

Chicago, etc. Being very specific in your prompt
will get you better quality responses.

Upload the rubric and then ask it to create an ^Lifelong
example of a 5-page assignment meeting the
• Excellent criterion
• Satisfactory criterion
• Needs Improvement criterion.
In minutes you will have three writing samples to

share with your students.

Beyond this, your choices for use are extensive. ^Lifelong
Have your students:

• rate the three writing samples.
• correct the errors in the Needs Improvement
paper, identifying the errors and offering
suggestions of how to fix them to fit the
Excellent criteria.
• work in teams to share ideas.

ChatGPT for Self-Assessment
ChatGPT type tools can provide students with ^Lifelong
feedback on their projects and papers. Students can
• Use the Editor Tool in Word to clean
• Upload your rubric
• Ask ChatGPT for feedback on the quality.
• Make corrections and submit to you.
Many more examples and prompts in the online

course:

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• Do you have any questions

about using ChatGPT in
course design?
• Please share ways you are
using ChatGPT in your
courses.

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MidJourney Bot
MidJourney is a program to
develop graphics, logos, and
pictures to enhance your course’s
visual content.

The advantages and best-practices it provides to
enhance significant learning:
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• Students can learn from a diversity of visual content that
designers have created to better illustrate concepts.
• Students can learn how to create quality content for use in

presentations and discussions which are usable skills for their
professional careers.
• Designers can create comparison graphics, charts, graphs, logos for

projects, predictive illustrations, etc.

The advantages and best-practices it provides to
enhance significant learning:
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• Designers can enter graphic information to create a visual way to
display concepts with learners.
• Avatars from Synthesia can use video to explain the visual content
created in MidJourney.
• Designers can use graphics to introduce units, concepts, campus

assistance, etc.
• Products can be shared in opensource sites.

Assignment/Activity Uses
Example of uses to include in course content. ^Lifelong
Create baseball-style trading cards for the Thinkers of

Greece including Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and
Pythagoras.
• Each student can choose one person from a list
you have created in ChatGPT to avoid duplication.
• Students can use these to give to other students for
excellent discussion posts and feedback on
assignments.
• These are like badges to encourage student
interaction and quality engagement.
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The same type of
cards could be
created for Greek
• Inventors and
Innovators,
• ancient Greek
gods, or
• places to see in
Greece.

You can create badges (Olympic Icons) in ^Lifelong
MidJourney to give to students for
excellent work!

ChatGPT Prompt: ^Lifelong
Socrates, Aristotle, and
Plato discuss the
importance of peace in
developing civilization.
Topics include:
• creating an economy,
• development of culture,
• the structure of
government, and
• forming alliances with
other nations.

Synthesia
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AI Voiceover
Course content
videos in about
30 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAGemAfBLY

Create Your Own Avatar?
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Synthesia will let you for $1000
A bit steep? Try Canva!

Canva uses your own photo.
Go to Apps in Canva and use the D-ID for
creating your own avatar.
Want to see?

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My Photo → My Avatar,
With My Voice!
CC can be added.

Canva
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Create Your Own Course

Badges
• 100s of templates
• Similar to PowerPoint
• Individualize Badges to
Fit Your Course!

Creating Presentations: Pictory
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Imagine creating these types
of video presentations to
inspire learners as you
introduce units and major
concepts in your courses.
Time to innovate!
Descriptions and step-by-step directions
are in the course:
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Design
Creating Presentations: KAPWING
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KAPWING is a
comprehensive online
platform to enhance course
content through a designed
approach to streamline
these processes: video
editing, image manipulation,
GIF creation, narration and
captions.

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Remember the History of

Greece course?
You can develop unit
introductions using your
text content, photos, and
video or Kapwing’s photos
and video.

Benefits of Using Kapwing’s AI Features ^Lifelong
• Efficiency: AI-driven tools like auto-subtitles and background
removal save time and effort.
• Accessibility: Translating subtitles makes your content accessible
to a wider, international audience.
• Flexibility: Create one presentation and use parts for others by
trimming.
• Branding: Course (department/program) branding can
standardize look and feel.

Benefits of Using Kapwing’s AI Features ^Lifelong
• Teamwork: One intuitive process where anyone can create
content, share feedback, and use brand assets in real time. This
is great for faculty/instructional designers and students creating
assignment presentations.
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• Professional Quality: AI features ensure a high-quality finish,

from seamless cuts to clear, engaging visuals.
Descriptions and step-by-step directions are in the course:


Creating Presentations:
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• Avatars (select from existing avatars or create your own)
• 300 voices preselected or your own voice
• 40+ languages
• Your text/content
• Presentation backgrounds and PowerPoint style text adds to the
background
Descriptions and step-by-step directions for avatars are in the course:


Let’s See My Avatar!
Creating Presentations:
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Coming Soon!
Creating Presentations: Open AIs Sora
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Creating Chatbots 101: KAPWING
A chatbot works by simulating a conversation with users, often through
text messages, to provide information or assistance. The core of a
chatbot's functionality is its ability to understand and process user
inputs, generate appropriate responses, and learn from interactions to
improve over time. Here’s a breakdown of how chatbots typically
function:
1. User Interaction:
• The user sends a message to the chatbot.
• The chatbot interface receives the message.

Chatbots 101
2. Input Processing:
• The message is processed using Natural Language Processing (NLP),
where the text is analyzed to understand the user's intent.
• The chatbot may break down the message into tokens, analyze the
grammar, and extract entities and intents.
3. Generating a Response:
• Based on the identified intent and available data, the chatbot
formulates a response which is retrieved from a set of predefined
responses or generated on the fly using advanced models.
4. User Feedback:
• The user receives the response and continues the interaction.
• The chatbot may learn from the user’s feedback to improve future
responses.
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© 2024 Encore Professional Development, reproduction prohibited without permission.

“Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Human Intelligence.”©

© 2024 Encore Professional Development, reproduction prohibited without permission.

© 2024 Encore Professional Development, reproduction prohibited without permission.

© 2024 Encore Professional Development, reproduction prohibited without permission.

Designing Effective Teaching and

© 2024 Encore Professional Development, reproduction prohibited without permission.

Designing the Future of Effective Teaching and

Online Course Design Institute OCDI